Senior Islamic State commander Omar al-Shishani has been “clinically dead” for several days following a US air strike in northern Syria, according to a monitoring group.<p>Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said on Sunday: “Shishani is not able to breathe on his own …

Just as Iraq's army, backed by local militias and western war-planes, turns the tide against Islamic State, region's oil price war leaves it searching for money to buy weapons<p>Just as it is starting to turn the tide against Isil, Iraq is running out of money.<p>Behind the front lines of the Iraqi …

One listed as a former trainee pilot and construction worker, the other as a computing and HR specialist, in papers reportedly stolen by ex-member<p>At least two Australians are reported to appear in a cache of thousands of Islamic State registration forms leaked by a disaffected former member.<p>Two …

Republican frontrunner faces increasingly intense condemnation even from members of his own party, who warn Trump is inciting rallies into violence<p>Donald Trump has refused to take responsibility for a weekend of violence and chaos on his campaign trail, defying increasingly intense criticism even …

In the latest in a series of retaliatory shootings amid a South Side gang war, the father of Tyshawn Lee has been charged with shooting the girlfriend of one of the men held in the killing of his 9-year-old son, authorities said Sunday.<p>A spokeswoman for the Cook County state's attorney's office …

A Cook County judge on Saturday lashed out at two Northwestern University freshmen accused of spray-painting racist and homophobic messages along with the name of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump inside a nondenominational chapel on the university's campus.<p>“These allegations are …

<b>Birmingham's education commissioner says he has banned the use of the term "Trojan Horse" to describe alleged attempts by groups to take over schools and covertly impose a Muslim ethos.</b><p>Sir Mike Tomlinson, appointed in the wake of the controversy, says the phrase was "not helpful" to attempts to …